Movie Review : Ghajini

Ghajini

As the year 2008 (a high voltage action year), approaches towards its end and the entire country is busy with their preparations to welcome the New Year with new hope and prayer on their lips.

Bollywood’s wait for the year’s most talked and awaited movie to hit the theatre is also over as Aamir Khan’s Ghajini stormed into the theatres on the 25^th December wishing all a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year ’09.

Welcome to the Movie Review of “Ghajini”

Aamir khan is back towards the end of the year promising to give bollywood its biggest hit of the year (similar to TZP).The Movie had made enough news with the hair style, eight pack physique, tattoos etc…

And it was bound to make much more into news when it hits the theatre (whether the film is a success or not) and that is exactly what it has done.

After Shah Rukh Khan’s “Rab ne Bana di Jodi” not making much impact at the box office and the industry had not given the audience the required amount of action that the year had given them, so A.R. Murugadoss decided to do the needful, with the remake of his South Indian Ghajini (Surya Shivkumar, Asin Thottumkal in the lead), teaming up with “Mr. Perfectionist” Aamir Khan and Asin Thottumkal to give the audience a power punch treat at the year’s end.

The movie’s promotions hade promised a lot of blood shed and action which would even make Rambo, Van Damme and Jason Bourne run for cover.

Let’s not talk about the Plot of the Film as most of us must have watched the film, but here is to inform all those people who are making a gaga over the plot and the story.

Ghajini is a remake of the South Indian hit film directed by A.R. Murugadoss’s “Ghajini” which was great hit in the year 2005, which was inspired by director Christopher Nolan’s “Memento” in the year 2000.

The movie deals with the short term memory loss by Aamir Khan, his memory lasts for only 15 minutes, and it seems that director A R Murgadoss too suffered from the same while making the hindi version as he has managed to achieve and retain only about 15% of the original South Indian hit “Ghajini”.

It is good to see a makeover image of Aamir khan as an action hero; last we had seen him in John Matthew Matthan’s “Sarfarosh” in the year 1999 as ACP Rathore.

There many loopholes which weaken the film and make the audience restless:

The length of the plot is too long to hold the audience to their seats for 3 hrs and above. The Villain ”Ghajini” played by Pradeep Rawat does not impress and has been put in such a situation which he cannot handle, was there no other bad man available in the industry to match up with eight pack Sanjay Singhania.

The short term memory related to take revenge for the murder of Kalpana should have been internally linked with memory flashes or sporadic dreams.

(But hey no comment about the plot as it has been admitted to have been a remake of South Indian “Ghajini”, so let’s leave the plot as it is).

Jiah Khan fails to impress after Nishabd It has been a total loss for Jiah Khan to do either an item dance or speak Hindi, both are beyond her ability.

Well the movie is not as bad as you would think after reading my blog, there are few positive credits to it also:

A great performance by Aamir Khan, his performance is a treat to watch, the expressions, looks on his face and his eyes and the attitude with which he carries himself could not have been any better. No matter how this movie is accepted by the audience, but Aamir Khan’s performance would be remembered and would be rated as one of his best performance till date. Hats off to you Aamir, you were simply great.

All applause for A R Rehman, the music is simply awesome and it leaves the entire country humming again to the beats of Rehman.

Asin Thottumkal’s entry into bollywood could not have been any better, she seemed to have the maximum fun, she plays the similar role that she did in South Indian “Ghajini”, and she is warm, loud, emotional and beautiful. (But she will face a good competition for the “Best New Debutant” as Anushka Sharma has also given an impressive performance in her debut film “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”).

There is a brilliant choreography of the song Behka. Also a great cinematography by Ravi K Chandran and not to forget the thrilling action sequence by Peter Hein.

There are other scene sequence which does bring a smile on your face such as, Asin been first seen by Aamir helping disabled kids, the first meeting between Aamir and Asin, the platinum card event at the pani puri stall, Asin’s proposal acceptance and her plans towards marriage and the New year party incident all these does make you smile, but on the other hand the fact that Sachin has not yet told Kalpana that he is Sanjay Singhania leaves the audience in a little saddened towards the love story.

Above all “Ghajini” is a onetime watchable movie (that too in a theatre), you can watch it for Aamir Khan’s performance and A R Rehman’s music. Don’t compare it to the South Indian “Ghajini” and please don’t have high expectations from the film else you would end up disappointing yourself.

Watch it with Popcorn and treat yourself at the year’s end with this action flick.

And if you are still not satisfied with it and want some thing more on the short term memory loss, some good and original work than watch Christopher Nolan’s “Memento” and for desi and original “Ghajini” watch the south Indian “Ghajini”.